This is a detailed bibliography on Organic Honey, including references to the performances, installations, and videos. Texts are organized alphabetically by year within the following categories: Articles; Books & Exhibition Catalogues; and Statements by Joan Jonas. Statements also appear within either Articles or Books & Exhibition Catalogues. If you have suggestions for additional sources to add to this page, please contact us.
Articles
1972
Béar, Liza, and Willoughby Sharp. “Description Festival Music and Dance.” Avalanche no. 4 (Summer 1972): 6–7.
DeJong, Constance. “‘A Work by Joan Jonas’. Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy.” Directing Issue, The Drama Review: TDR 16, no. 2 (June 1972): 63–65.
“Entertainment Events.” New York Times, February 12, 1972, 35.
Jonas, Joan. “Joan Jonas, a cura di Germano Celant.” Casabella (Milan) 36, no. 370 (October 1972): 37–41.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (Script, 1972).” Directing Issue, The Drama Review: TDR 16, no. 2 (June 1972): 66–74.
Kurtz, Bruce. “Video is being Invented.” Arts Magazine 47, no. 3 (December/January 1972/1973): 37–44.
McDonagh, Don. “Mirrors and TV Act as Dance Elements.” New York Times, February 22, 1972, 45.
Mekas, Jonas. “Movie Journal.” Village Voice, March 23, 1972, 73.
Simonetti, Gianni-Emilio. “Festival of Music and Dance.” Flash Art, no. 35/36 (September/October 1972): 4–5.
1973
Anderson, Laurie. “Joan Jonas.” Art Press, no. 7 (November/December 1973): 20.
Béar, Liza, and Willoughby Sharp. “Joan Jonas’ Song Delay.” Avalanche, no. 7 (Winter/Spring 1973): 5.
Béar, Liza, and Willoughby Sharp. “Rumble: Circuit A Video Invitational” Avalanche, no. 7 (Winter/Spring 1973): 11.
DeJong, Constance. “Joan Jonas: Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll.” Arts Magazine 47, no. 5 (March 1973): 27–29.
Forti, Simone, and Joan Jonas. “Show Me Your Dances…” Interview by Carla Liss. Art and Artists 8, no. 7 (October 1973): 14–21.
Jonas, Joan. “Joan Jonas.” Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin 30, no. 3 (Spring 1973): 131–33.
Kingsley, April. “New York Letter.” Art International 17, no.1 (January/May 1973): 64–65.
McDonagh, Don. “Joan Jonas Dances as Organic Honey, Fictional Woman.” New York Times, January 8, 1973, 29.
Pierce, Robert J. “The Bang of One Spoon Rolling.” Village Voice, January 18, 1973.
Spear, Athena. “Some Thoughts on Contemporary Art.” Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 30, no. 3 (Spring 1973): 90–98.
1974
Borden, Lizzie. “The New Dialectic” Artforum 12, no. 6 (February 1974): 44–51.
Borden, Lizzie. “Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll.” Castelli-Sonnabend Videotapes and Films 1, no. 1 (November 1974): 77.
Burgin, Richard. “Nude in Museum Was Alive, and Kicking!” Boston Globe (1960–1979), February 7, 1974, 19.
Carroll, Nöel. “Joan Jonas: Making the Image Visible.” Artforum 12, no. 8 (April 1974): 52–53.
Rubin, Vittorio. “Music and Dance in the USA.” Data (Milano) 4, no. 13 (Fall 1974): 26–35.
Wortz, Melinda T. “Collector’s Video.” Artweek 5, no. 23, June 15, 1974, 1, 16.
1975
Grosshans, Katherine. “Joan Jonas in Seattle.” Artweek 6, no. 37, November 1, 1975, 4.
Jonas, Joan, and Rosalind Krauss. “Seven Years.” Post-Modern Dance Issue, The Drama Review: TDR 19, no. 1 (March 1975): 13–17.
Welling, Jim. “Joan Jonas Performance.” Artweek, April 12, 1975, 4.
1976
Crimp, Douglas. “Joan Jonas’s Performance Works.” Studio International 192, no. 982 (July/August 1976): 10–12.
Donohoe, Victoria. “Space, Time Interwoven in Stage Sets.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 1976, 17-I.
Grolitsch, Gerhild. “We Are Feminists.” Flash Art, no. 68/69 (October/November 1976): 17–20.
Krauss, Rosalind. “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism.” October 1 (1976): 50–64.
Lorber, Richard. “Towards an Aesthetics of Videodance.” Arts in Society 13, no. 2 (Summer 1976): 242–53.
Ross, David. “A Provisional Overview of Artist’s Television in the US.” Studio International 191, no. 981 (May/June 1976): 265–72.
1979
Jonas, Joan. “Joan Jonas: Interview by Robin White.” Interview by Robin White. View 2, no. 1 (April 1979): 1–24.
1980
Banes, Sally. “First Intermedia Festival.” Dance Magazine 54, no. 5 (May 1980): 44–45, 146–47.
Maul, Tim. “Joan Jonas: Guggenheim Museum/New York.” Flash Art, no. 96/97, (March/April 1980): 51.
Stofflet, Mary. “Joan Jonas and Cultural Biography.” Artweek 11, no. 6, June 7, 1980, 5.
Stofflet, Mary. “Personal and Cultural Narratives.” Artweek 11, no. 1, January 26, 1980, 5.
1981
Junker, Howard. “Joan Jonas: The Mirror Staged.” Art in America 69, no. 2 (February 1981): 87–95.
Kalil, Susie. “Joan Jonas: Performance Recorded Through Installation Site.” Artweek, September 19, 1981, 15–16.
1983
James, David. “Too Much Accessibility.” Artweek, November 5, 1983, 13.
1985
Jonas, Joan. “Layers of Visual Language.” Interview by Saskia Bos. De Appel Bulletin, no. 1 (1985): 21–25.
London, Barbara. “Video: A Selected Chronology. 1963–1983.” Art Journal 45, no. 3 (Fall 1985): 249–62.
1992
Jonas, Joan. “Mask, Role and Narrative: An Interview with Joan Jonas.” Interview by Nick Kaye. Performance, no. 65/66 (Spring 1992): 49–60.
1993
Schwabsky, Barry. “Joan Jonas: Le Miroir et la Voix.” ArtPress, no. 182 (July/August 1993): 30–33.
1995
Simon, Joan. “Scenes and Variations: an Interview with Joan Jonas.” Art in America 83, no. 7 (July 1995): 72–79, 100–101.
1996
Meyer, James. “Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965–1975.” Artforum 34, no. 6 (February 1996): 78–79, 109.
2000
Wagner, Anne M. “Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence.” October 91 (Winter 2000): 59–80.
2001
Smolik, Noemi. “Joan Jonas: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart.” Artforum 40, no. 1 (September 2001): 203.
2002
Jonas, Joan. “Sappho (1972).” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 24, no. 2 (May 2002): 6–7.
2003
Budick, Ariella. “Museum Mired in Nostalgia.” Chicago Tribune, December 31, 2003, 6.
2004
Burton, Johanna. “Joan Jonas: Queens Museum of Art, New York.” Artforum 42, no. 8 (April 2004): 151–52.
Jonas, Joan. “A Portfolio.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 26, no. 3 (2004): 30–34.
Jonas, Joan. “’That’s what we do—we retell stories.’ Listening to Joan Jonas.” Interview by Robert Ayers. In Joan Jonas, edited by Stephen Foster and Amanda Wilkinson, 9–16. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery, 2004. Reprinted in Joan Jonas, edited by Julienne Lorz and Andrea Lissoni, 161–69. London: Tate Modern; Munich: Haus der Kunst; Porto: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art; Munich: Hirmer, 2018.
Kremer, Martin. “Get Rid of the Knots.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, no. 9 (Spring/Summer 2004): 10–19.
Philbrick, Jane. “Paper Trail: Reviewing Lines in the Sand and Other Key Works of Joan Jonas.” PAJ: Performance Art Journal 78, no. 3 (September 2004): 17–29.
2005
Clausen, Barbara. “JJ’s Stories.” Spike, no.4 (Spring 2005): 44–53.
2010
Jonas, Joan. “Joan Jonas.” Interview by Karin Schneider. Bomb, no. 112 (Summer 2010): 58–67.
2011
Leaver-Yap, Mason. “Performing the Image: Joan Jonas’ Glass Puzzle.” Lux Journal, January 19, 2011.
2014
Marranca, Bonnie, Claire MacDonald, and Joan Jonas. “Drawing My Way In.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 36, no. 2 (May 2014): 35–57.
2015
Fateman, Johanna. “Notes on Vamp.” Artforum 53, no. 10 (Summer 2015): 316–17.
Lee, Pamela. “Double Takes.” Artforum 53, no. 10 (Summer 2015): 308–15.
2017
Schwabsky, Barry. “In Conversation: Joan Jonas with Barry Schwabsky.” Brooklyn Rail (June 2017), online.
2018
Jonas, Joan. “Interview: Joan Jonas the Performer.” Interview by Rachel Rose. TATE etc., no. 42 (Spring 2018), online.
Jonas, Joan. “Joan Jonas interviewed by Liam Gillick.” Interview by Liam Gillick. Art Review (March 2018).
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
1972
Jonas, Joan. “Artist’s Statement.” In India/America: Musica e Danza, edited by Fabio Sargentini, np. Rome: Galleria L’Attico, 1972.
1974
Siegel, Marcia B. “Esperimenti nell’anarchia / Experiments in Anarchy.” In Contemporanea: Roma, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, edited by Bruno Mantura, 393–409. Florence: Centro Di, 1974.
Vergine, Lea. “Joan Jonas.” In Il corpo come linguaggio (La `Body-art` e storie simili) (1974) / Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language, 123–26. Milan: G. Prearo. Reprint, Milan: Skira Editore, 2000.
1976
Davis, Douglas. “SOHO DU MAL, Film, Video, Culture and Politics.” In New York-Downtown Manhattan: Soho: Ausstellungen, Theater, Musik, Performance, Video, Film, edited by René Block, Ursula Block, and Kurt Thöricht, 211–236. [Berlin]: Akademie der Künste, 1976.
Lippard, Lucy R. “The Geography of Street Time: A Survey of Street Works Downtown.” In New York-Downtown Manhattan: Soho: Ausstellungen, Theater, Musik, Performance, Video, Film, edited by René Block, Ursula Block, and Kurt Thöricht, 180–210. [Berlin]: Akademie der Künste, 1976.
1979
Goldberg, RoseLee. “Seventies’ Performance: ‘To be with Art is All we Ask.’” In Performance Live Art from 1909 to the Present, 98–124. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979.
1980
Siegel, Marcia B. “Mediadance.” SoHo Weekly News, March 5, 1980. Reprinted in The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, 98–99. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.
1983
Crimp, Douglas. “De-synchronization in Joan Jonas’s Performances.” In Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 8–10. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Jonas, Joan. “Closing Statement.” In Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 137–39. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll 1972 [Script].” In Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 53–58. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy 1972 [Script].” In Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 44–52. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Ross, David. “Joan Jonas’s Videotapes.” In Joan Jonas Scripts and Descriptions: 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 123–135. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Roth, Moira, and Mary Jane Jacob. “Joan Jonas.” In The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970–1980, edited by Moira Roth, 18, 106–108. Los Angeles: Astro Artz. 1983.
1986
Almhofer, Edith. “Joan Jonas.” In Performance Art: Die Kunst zu leben, edited by Edith Almhofer, 71–98. Weimar, Germany: Hermann Böhlau, 1986.
1990
O’Dell, Kathy. “Performance, Video, and Trouble at Home.” In Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, edited by Sally Jo Fifer and Doug Hall, 135–51. New York: Aperture Books, 1990.
1994
Ferguson, Bruce. “AmerefierycontemplationonthesageaofJoanJonas.” In Joan Jonas: Works 1968–1994, edited by Dorine Mignot, 13–21. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994.
Jonas, Jonas. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972/1994) Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (1972/1994)” [and floor plan]. In Joan Jonas: Works 1968–1994, edited by Dorine Mignot, 42–49, 116-117. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994.
Mignot, Dorine. “From Reflection to Revolt.” In Joan Jonas: Works 1968–1994, edited by Dorine Mignot, 9–12. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994.
Serra, Richard. “Impromptu, February 1968.” In Joan Jonas: Works 1968–1994, edited by Dorine Mignot, 33. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994. Reprinted in In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 140. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Winters, Robin. “On the Delayed Songs of Joan Jonas.” In Joan Jonas: Works 1968–1994, edited by Dorine Mignot, 62. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994.
1995
Goldstein, Ann, and Anne Rorimer. “Joan Jonas.” In 1965–1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, edited by Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer, 136–39. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
2001
Christofori, Ralf. “Information Passes Through: Drawing in the Work of Joan Jonas.” In Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968–2000, edited by Johann Karl Schmidt, 222–25. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
Dreher, Thomas. “Die Kamera und/oder Beobachter in Aktion.” In Performance Art nach 1945, 368–70. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2001.
Engelbach, Barbara. “ Rhythmisierung des Videoflusses (Jonas)”, “Video: Das narzißtische Medium (Jonas).” In Zwischen Body Art und Videokunst: Körper und Video in der Aktionskunst um 1970, 52–54, 112–19. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
Iles, Chrissie. “Reflective Spaces: Film and Video in the Work of Joan Jonas.” In Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968–2000, edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt, 154–64. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
Jahn, Andrea. “The Encounter with the Gaze Behind the Mask.” In Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968–2000, edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt, 58–67. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy and Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll.” In Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968–2000, edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt, 106–19. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
Simon, Joan. “Scenes and Variations: an Interview with Joan Jonas.” In Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968–2000, edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt, 25–35. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
Zimmerman, Anja. “The (Im)mobile Trap of the Reflecting Surface: Self Construction and Image Construction in the Work of Joan Jonas.” In Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968–2000, ed. Johann-Karl Schmidt, 97–103. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
2003
Clausen, Barbara. “Drawing Languages.” In Joan Jonas: Five Works, edited by Valerie Smith, 113–16. New York: Queens Museum, 2003.
Heuving, Jeanne, Susan Howe, and Joan Jonas. “An Exchange Between Joan Jonas, Susan Howe, Jeanne Heuving.” In Joan Jonas: Five Works, edited by Valerie Smith, 127–36. New York: Queens Museum, 2003.
Jonas, Joan. “Interview with Joan Jonas.” Interview by Klaus Biesenbach. In Video Acts: Single Channel Works form the Collection of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, edited by Klaus Biesenbach, Anthony Huberman, and Amy Smith, 17–20. Long Island City: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 2003.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy 1972, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll 1972.” In Joan Jonas: Five Works, edited by Valerie Smith, 10. New York: Queens Museum, 2003.
Jonas, Joan. “Transmission.” In Women, Art, and Technology, edited by Judy Malloy, 115–33. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Kim, Hwan Sung. “Organic Honey’s Name.” In Joan Jonas: Five Works, edited by Valerie Smith, 94. New York: Queens Museum, 2003.
London, Barbara. “For the Love of Scan Lines.” In Video Acts: Single Channel Works form the Collection of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, edited by Klaus Biesenbach, Anthony Huberman, and Amy Smith, 20–23. Long Island City: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 2003.
Osswald, Anja. “Pose versus Aktion: oder ist die Aktionskunst männlich?” In Sexy Lies in Videotapes: Künstlerische Selbstinszenierungen im Video um 1970 Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas, 221–52. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann, 2003.
Smith, Valerie. “Passing Through.” In Joan Jonas: Five Works, edited by Valerie Smith, 117–18. New York: Queens Museum, 2003.
2004
Lee, Pamela M. “Bare Lives.” In X-Screen, Film Installations and Actions in the 1960–1970s, edited by Matthias Michalka, 70–86. Köln: Walther König, 2004.
2005
Berghaus, Günter. “Video and Multimedia Performance: Joan Jonas.” In Avante Garde Performance, 205–10. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
2006
Clausen, Barbara. “A Conversation: Babette Mangolte and Joan Jonas.” In After the Act: The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art, edited by Nina Krick and Barbara Clausen, 51–65. Vienna: MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 2006.
Clausen, Barbara. “After the Act: The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art.” In After the Act: The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art, edited by Nina Krick and Barbara Clausen, 7–20. Vienna: MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 2006.
Jonas, Joan. Interview by Constance DeJong. In The Early Show: Video from 1969–1979, edited by Constance DeJong, 35–37. New York: The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, 2006.
Kaye, Nick. “Delay and the Subject: Joan Jonas.” In Multi-media: Video Installation Performance, edited by Nick Kaye, 73–78. Florence: Taylor and Frances, 2006.
Kolesch, Doris, and Annette Jael Lehmann. “Inter/Action? Staging the Self and Medialization in Bruce Nauman, Joan Jonas, and Vito Acconci.” In After the Act: The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art, edited by Nina Krick and Barbara Clausen, 67–78. Vienna: MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 2006.
2007
Clausen, Barbara. “Crossroads Dancing.” In Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, edited by Bartomeu Marí, 18–30. Barcelona: MACBA, 2007.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy.” In Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, edited by Bartomeu Marí, 56–67. Barcelona: MACBA, 2007.
Marí, Bartomeu. “Other Times and Other Places. The Art of Joan Jonas.” In Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, edited by Bartomeu Marí with Clara Plasencia and Claudia’s Faus, 6–17. Barcelona: MACBA, 2007.
Volk, Gregory. “Joan Jonas: Country Things.” In Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, edited by Bartomeu Marí, 32–45. Barcelona: MACBA, 2007.
2010
London, Barbara. “From Video to Intermedia: A Personal History.” In Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, edited by Cornelia H. Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, 356–59. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich. “Joan Jonas.” In Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2, edited by Charles Arseène-Henry, Shumon Basar, and Karen Marta, 136–59. Milan: Charta, 2010.
2014
Clausen, Barbara. “How Things Look According To Where You Stand.” In Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane, edited by Dean Daderko, 131–35. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2014.
Daderko, Dean. “Connecting Parallel Lines.” In Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane, edited by Dean Daderko, 84–101. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2014.
Jonas, Joan. “Transmission.” In Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane, edited by Dean Daderko, 112–27. Houston: Houston Contemporary Art Museum, 2014.
2015
Adorf, Sigrid. “Das Private ist Politisch! Repräsentationskritische Eingriffe im Alltag.” In Operation Video, 19–22, 80–86. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2015.
Burton, Johanna. “The Strings of the Human Spirit: Joan Jonas’s Asymmetrical Symbolic”. In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 172–79. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Crimp, Douglas. “De-Synchronization in Joan Jonas’s Performances” and “Synchronies of ‘De-Synchronization.’” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 136–39. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll [Introduction and Script].” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 162–69. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy [Introduction and Script].” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 145–51. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Schaffner, Ingrid. “Conversation with Joan Jonas.” In Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without A Word, edited by Jane Farber, 114–31. Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center; New York: Gregory R. Miller, New York; and Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015.
Simon, Joan. “Migration, Translation, Transmission.” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 80–121. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Simon, Joan. “Organic Honey.” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 142–43. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Wilson, Siona. “Abstract Transmissions: Other Trajectories for Feminist Video.” Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art, edited by Gabrielle Jennings, 50–65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.
2017
Clausen, Barbara. “Performing the Archive and Exhibiting the Ephemeral.” In A History of Performance Documentation, edited by Gabriella Giannachi and Johan Westerman, 93–114. London: Routledge, 2017.
Francis, Jacqueline. “Three Women.” In Joan Jonas is on our mind, edited by Frances Richard, 37–39. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2017.
Huberman, Anthony. “Introduction.” In Joan Jonas is on our mind, edited by Frances Richard, 11–17. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2017.
2018
Lissoni, Andrea and Julienne Lorz, “Distance, Framing, Co-existence, and Layering: Joan Jonas’s Artistic Processes.” In Joan Jonas, edited by Andrea Lissoni and Julienne Lorz, 10–27. London: Tate Modern; Munich: Haus der Kunst; Porto: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art; Munich: Hirmer, 2018.
Lissoni, Andrea, Julienne Lorz, and João Ribas. “From the Imagination to the Real.” In Joan Jonas, edited by Andrea Lissoni and Julienne Lorz, 234–69. London: Tate Modern; Munich: Haus der Kunst; Porto: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art; Munich: Hirmer, 2018
Wood, Catherine. “Inhabiting the Image.” In Performance in Contemporary Art, 61–72. London: Tate Modern, 2018.
Wood, Catherine. “Joan Jonas’s Performance: The Mythology of Remaking.” In Joan Jonas, edited by Andrea Lissoni and Julienne Lorz, 84–91. London: Tate Modern; Munich: Haus der Kunst; Porto: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art; Munich: Hirmer, 2018.
Young, Gillian Turner. “Telepresence: Joan Jonas and the Emergence of Performance and Video Art in the 1970s.” PhD diss., Columbia University, New York, 2018.
2020
London, Barbara. “Video Advances.” Video Art The First Fifty Years, 30–55. London; New York: Phaidon, 2020.
Statements by Joan Jonas
1972
Jonas, Joan. “Artist’s Statement.” In India/America: Musica e Danza, edited by Fabio Sargentini, np. Rome: Galleria L’Attico, 1972.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (Script, 1972).” Directing Issue, The Drama Review: TDR 16, no. 2 (June 1972): 66–74.
1973
Jonas, Joan. “Joan Jonas.” Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 30, no. 3 (Spring 1973): 131–33.
1975
Jonas, Joan, and Rosalind Krauss. “Seven Years.” Post-Modern Dance Issue, The DramaReview: TDR 19, no. 1 (March 1975): 13–17.
1983
Jonas, Joan. “Closing Statement.” In Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 137–39. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll 1972 [Script].” In Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 53–58. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy 1972 [Script].” In Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions 1968–1982, edited by Douglas Crimp, 44–52. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California; Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1983.
1994
Jonas, Jonas. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972/1994) Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (1972/1994)” [and floor plan]. In Joan Jonas: Works 1968–1994, edited by Dorine Mignot, 42–49, 116-117. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994.
2001
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy and Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll.” In Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968–2000, edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt, 106–19. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
2002
Jonas, Joan. “Sappho (1972).” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 24, no. 2 (May 2002): 6–7.
2003
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy 1972, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll 1972.” In Joan Jonas: Five Works, edited by Valerie Smith, 10. New York: Queens Museum, 2003.
Jonas, Joan. “Transmission.” In Women, Art, and Technology, edited by Judy Malloy, 115–33. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
2007
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy.” In Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, edited by Anna Borrell and Bartomeu Marí, 56–67. Barcelona: MACBA, 2007.
2014
Jonas, Joan. “Transmission.” In Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane, edited by Dean Daderko, 112–27. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2014.
2015
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll [Introduction and Script].” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 162–69. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy [Introduction and Script].” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 147–51. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Videos
“Conversation Without Walls: Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake.” Danspace Project Journal, no. 11, Posted September 17, 2020.
The Museum of Modern Art. “Virtual Views: Video Lives: Live Q&A with Stuart Comer and Joan Jonas.” Video, 56:35. Posted July 2, 2020.